Super Blue Blood Moon Event Becomes Lunar “Trifecta”
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The second full moon of January can be seen in the skies on January 31, 2018. A lunar eclipse will also occur, as well as a blood moon, according to mnn.com.
“If you live in North America, Alaska, or Hawaii, the eclipse will be visible before sunrise on Jan. 31. For those in the Middle East, Asia, eastern Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the “super blue blood moon” can be seen during moonrise in the morning on the 31st,” according to nasa.gov.
NASA is calling this Super Blue Blood moon, a “Lunar Trifecta” since its a combination of three distinct events, stated huffingtonpost.com. One is a supermoon which will occur near a perigee, which is where the moon is closest to earth.
Secondly, this event is the second full moon this month. This is called a “Blue Moon.” Thirdly, is it will all happen during a lunar eclipse. A blood red color occurs when the Earth passes between the moon and the sun giving it a reddish glow according to foxnews.com.
“Supermoons generally only occur once every 14 months and will not happen again until January 2019.” according to foxnews.com
“Some supermoons are full moons, and some are new moons. In the year 2018, any full moon or new moon coming closer than 361,554.9 km of Earth counts as a supermoon,” according to earthsky.org
Despite the name, supermoons are not that super because they occur about four to six times a year according to science howstuffworks.com. Out of all lunar eclipses that occur a blood moon will occur about once out of every three lunar eclipses according to timeandate.com. A blue moon only happens every three years or so according to foxnews.com
Melia Hyland • Feb 6, 2018 at 2:21 pm
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Savanah Cicero • Feb 6, 2018 at 9:27 am
Wow,I can’t believe that after the moon being blood red, there was another eclipes that made the moon blue . In my opinion I would defeatly want to see that next year.